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• Rome Italy Biblioteca Angelica 1408 [palimpsest old]

Written doubtless in Italy, to judge by the script and the character of the liturgical text. The superimposed medical text is associated with a monk of Monte Cassino and its script is a type of ordinary minuscule found in Monte Cassino MSS. The manuscript belonged to Cardinal Domenico Passionei (†1761).

Script is a rather awkward early Italian pre-Caroline minuscule with numerous ligatures, especially with ꞇ and with i, as in Beneventan; shafts of tall letters are club-shaped; c is often broken-backed; d has the uncial form; i-longa is used initially, and medially for the semi-vocal sound. A marginal addition occurs on fol. 8, but is hardly legible.

☛Formerly Rome, Biblioteca Angelica T 6.22.